"He had breasts. Not large ones. Small breasts, like a flat-chested woman temporarily swollen with milk. Then with his red beard, his face of a sunburnt forty-five-year-old man, stern-visaged, long-nosed, thin-lipped, he began to nurse. The baby stopped wailing and sucked greedily." -Marge Piercy, from "Woman on the Edge of Time" (p. 134)

30 July 2006

EXPOSURE TO MARKET IMPERATIVES IN CAPITALIST HISTORY

A recent blogpost by Stan Goff comes recommended -- Goff takes the idea of "exposure to market imperatives" to signify a primary mechanism for the capitalist system's cancerous growth, and shows how it has been combatted by subversive entities such as Common Ground in this day and age. A must-read.